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Historical Restoration of
Citadel Outlets
Built in 1929 for the Samson Tire and Rubber Company (later bought by Uniroyal) The Citadel is the 2nd most recognized building in Los Angeles, the first being Los Angeles City hall.
The plant was modeled after a 7th Century B.C. ancient Assyrian palace including a 1,350-foot-long (later expanded to 1,750) crenulated concrete wall decorated with heraldic griffins and bas-reliefs of Babylonian princes carved into the stone between impressive pillars and towers. The design, dedicated to the civilizations of Sumeria, Akkadia and Babylonia, conveys strength and style.
This historic building was in need of restoration and the current owners selected ACE Restoration, after visiting many of our historic restoration projects (The New Mart Building, Disney's El Capatain Theater, Huntington Library, Griffith Park Observatory) and seeing the quality of our work for this important project.
The scope of this work included:
- Re-creating & re-casting original architectural details, that had fallen of the building or were damaged.
- Extensive patching of eroded walls areas
- Epoxy injection of walls cracks
- Skim coating of wall to bring surface back to original finish
- Caulking of all joints & windows
- Installing clear consolidate & sealer to natural concrete bands
- Installing waterproof coating to entire building.
- Protective coating.
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Los Angeles, CA |
Renaissance
Esmeralda Resort
This water feature at the main pool
at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, was built with
very porous concrete and insufficient concrete cover
over the rebar. The high chlorine content of the
water, caused severe corrosion of the reinforcing
and subsequent spalling of the concrete.
- Solution to this problem was to remove all
concrete cover over the rebar cage.
- Sandblast the steel to remove corrosion.
- Apply a anti-corrosion protective coating
to the steel.
- Then ACE formed the columns and installed
a dense, high strength polymer mortar.
- A penetrating corrosion inhibiting sealer
was applied for further protection.
- To increase confinement of columns a "state
of the art" composite was installed. This
not only increased the strength of the columns,
but offered further protection from the chlorinated
water.
- The final step was to install a elastomeric
waterproof coating.
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Palm Desert, CA |
Blue
Diamond Almonds
The silos at Blue Diamond Almond had experienced
severe cracking. This cracking not only reduced
the structural capacity of these silos, but also
was point of moisture penetration into the silos
which was spoiling the almonds.
ACE structurally repaired all the concrete cracks
using high-pressure epoxy injection. A waterproof
elastomeric coating was applied to the silos to
prevent future moisture penetration.
The structural capacity of a old brick wall was
restored by enlarging the thickness wall with pneumatically
placed mortar (shotcrete) This wall also was coated
with a elastomeric coating. |
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Sacramento, CA |
Carson
Reclamation
The Los Angeles County Sanitation District sole
specifies the Linabond Co-Mastic system for protection
of concrete under the most extreme conditions (gaseous
hydrogen sulfide).
The Linabond system consists of a dense PVC liner
embedded into a urethane mastic for unsurpassed
protection. ACE has installed more square feet of
this product then any other local contractor. For
further information please visit Linabond's website
@ www.linabond.com |
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Carson, CA |
Huntington
Library Historical Restoration
Historical restoration is our favorite type of
work. We get to show off some of our extensive experience
in re-creating historical architectural details.
Our experience & quality is why The Huntington
Library choose ACE for the restoration of the Carriage
House.
The scope of this work included:
Re-creating original architectural details such
as balustrades, railings, column capitals. Extensive
pinning and repairs were made to restore the structural
integrity of the building. |
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Pasadena, CA |
Linabond
Polymer
| Linabond SP Reaction Injection System™
is for repair and protection of damaged structures
or new construction including pipelines, wet wells,
conveyance and diversion structures, grit chambers,
process and storage tanks, and other areas needing
structural repair, corrosion protection, or gas/liquid
containment. Interlocking rigid PVC gas barrier/Form
sheets are installed with a small annular space
between them and the prepared surface of the original
structure. The rigid PVC acts a s the form for the
thermosetting polymer. A pour-applied exothermic
mix-at-point Linabond Structural Polymer™
is injected into the space, simultaneously penetrating
the substrate and cross-linking with the PVC liner
to form a Co-Liner™. The injected polymer
thickness ranges from an average of ½ inch
to 8 inches and begins hardening immediately. For
further information please visit Linabond's website
@ www.linabond.com |
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Carson, CA |
Port
of Long Beach
| Due to some initial incorrect surveying, the benchmark
elevations for these crane rails were too low. To
correct this problem ACE was consulted to design
& install a high performance 2" topping
for these rails. A special mix design which incorporated
fiber mesh into the mix was installed to the correct
elevations. |
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Long Beach, CA |
Sea
World - Dolphin Stadium
ACE was selected by Sea World to
repair the damage done to the stairs from the corrosive
salt water environment at the Dolphin Stadium.
After the repairs were completed a attractive non-slip
protective coating was installed. |
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San Diego, CA |
SCE
Kern River
Extensive repairs were made to the 20 mile aqua
duct system used to bring water to the Southern
California Edison Power Plants along the Kern River.
The difficult access (small dirt paths) and remoteness
of the repairs made this one of our most challenging
projects to date. Many times helicopters had to
be used to bring equipment & materials to extremely
remote locations.
Repairs included:
- Extensive concrete repairs, ranging from
pneumatically placed concrete (shotcrete), form
and pump work and hand applied mortars.
- Protective coating.
- Structural Upgrades
This is our single largest project to date at $2,200,000.00.
The project was completed 1 month ahead of schedule. |
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Kernville, CA |
Historical Restoration of
The Griffith Park Observatory
Historical Restoration of a Los Angeles Landmark. Due to water-intrusion over the years, the reinforcing steel in the concrete was corroding. As this rust layer builds, tensile forces generated by the expansion of the oxide caused the concrete to crack & delaminate.
ACE technicians artfully handcrafted the patching of this building, to match the original architectural details.
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Recent Projects - Photo
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- Agnew Dam Leak Repair
| Another remote location project where equipment
and materials had to be flown in via helicopter.
Due to the remoteness of the location, our crew
experienced some pretty good fishing as well (after
work of course)! |
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Lee Vining, CA |
Manhattan
Towers Waterproofing
| 2 story subterranean parking structure was leaking
water extensively. Excavation was not a option for
this project. ACE designed remedial waterproofing
repairs for this project which involved injecting
a waterproofing membrane from the inside of the
structure to the exterior. This type of work is
a specialty of ACE. Many other waterproofing contractors
& manufactures of waterproofing materials use
ACE stop the "impossible to stop" leaks.
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Manhattan Beach, CA |
St
Joseph Hospital
| Structural repairs of concrete beams using pneumatically
placed concrete (shotcrete). |
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Orange, CA |
Flexural & Shear Upgrade Intel Corp.
Using "state of the art"
composites (carbon fiber and e-glass) ACE was hired
by Intel to upgrade the loading capacity (flexural
& shear upgrade) of one of their chip fabricating
facility. Carbon fiber was applied on the top of
the deck and e-glass was installed on the underside.
ACE completed this upgrade in 2 weeks. Other methods
Intel considered for this upgrade would have taken
as long as 3 months. In a facility that manufacturers
over $1,000,000.00 of chips per day, the small amount
of downtime compared to other methods was a tremendous
cost saving to Intel. |
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Santa Clara, CA |
Composite
Upgrade of Wood Beams
| Structural upgrade of wood beams using e-glass
composites. |
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San Bernardino, CA |
City
of Inglewood Carbon Fiber Column Wrap
| Structural columns wrap using Caron Fiber composites
for confinement & shear upgrades of city parking
structure. |
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Inglewood, CA |
Carbon
Upgrade of SDG & E Vault
| Loading capacity structural upgrade of San Diego
Gas & Electric underground vault using carbon
fiber composites. |
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San Diego, CA |
Structural
Column Wrap Burbank Media Center
| Shear reinforcement and confinement upgrade of
150 columns using e-glass composites. Some of the
columns had to be cut to allow access of the fiber
around the columns. |
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Burbank, CA |
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